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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Blue potatoes!!

We dug the potatoes last night. It was fun. I'd thought we would have to literally dig them, but the All Blues apparently don't produce very deeply. George was able to get the vast majority of them out just using his hands, digging around the base of each plant.

I went ahead with the shovel and found a few he missed, though not many at all. I almost quit, but the soil was turning over so nicely that I kept going more to get the bed ready for replanting than anything else.

I planted four pounds and it looks like four times as many, but weighing them on the floor scales says we only got ten pounds total. I've long thought those scales lie.